MODERNISTS IN POSTMODERNIST CLOTHING?

Chapter:

CHAPTER 10 Millennium's End

Source:

MUSIC IN THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Author(s):

Richard Taruskin

Even composers who do not actually (or always) use the new machines write in a manner that vividly reflects their influence.
John Zorn (b. 1953) has been touted by the New Grove Dictionary as “an archetypal example of the composer in the media age.”67 Putting it more bluntly, he writes that “I've got an incredibly short attention span,” and that his music is meant for listeners
who, like him, grew up with television.